[PCA] NEWS: Botanical Research Institute of Texas & U of North TX investigate digitizing herbarium collections
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Dec 3 10:07:49 CST 2008
http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/5109
Botanical Research Institute of Texas and University of North Texas
receive $738,075 National Leadership Grant for to investigate digitization
of herbarium collections
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Dec. 3 -/E-Wire/-- For 20 years, researchers have
studied the dried plant specimens of Fort Worth's Botanical Research
Institute of Texas (BRIT), which houses more than one million specimens as
the largest independent herbarium in the southwestern United States. Its
specimens date back to the 18th century.
The Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK) at the University of North
Texas in Denton is partnering with the BRIT to develop and integrate
technology that will transform data from the printed or handwritten labels
of the institute's specimens into a form that is processable by computers.
BRIT and TxCDK have received a $738,075 National Leadership Grant from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services, a primary source of federal
support for the nation's libraries and museums, for the project,
"High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of
Biological Specimen Label Data."
See the link above for the full press release text.
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